Lecture Schedules and Reading List

Lecture 12: Peer-to-Peer Streaming

Resilient Peer-to-Peer Streaming V. N. Padmanabhan, H. J. Wang, P. A. Chou. ICNP 2003, Atlanta, GA. [CoopNet Home Page] Dagster: Contributor Aware Peer-to-Peer Media Streaming in Heterogeneous Environment W. T. Ooi ACM/SPIE MMCN 2005.

Slides: P2P Streaming

Lecture 11: Application-Level Multicast

Scalable Application Layer Multicast, S. Banerjee, B. Bhattacharjee, and C. Kommareddy, SIGCOMM 2002, Pittsburgh, PA, August 2002. A Case For End System Multicast, Y. Chu, S. Rao, S. Sehan and H. Zhang, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications , pp. 1456--1471, October 2002

Slides: Application-Level Multicast

Lecture 10: Video on Demand

Skyscraper broadcasting: A new broadcasting scheme for metropolitan video-on-demand systems K. Hua and S. Sheu, Proc. ACM SIGCOMM, September 1997 (this paper contains an overview of pyramid broadcast and permutation-based pyramid broadcast). Patching: A multicast technique for true video-on-demand services, K. Hua, Y. Cai, and S. Sheu, in Proc. ACM Multimedia, September 1998

Slides: Video on Demand

Lecture 9: Streaming Media Caching

Caching techniques for streaming multimedia over the internet, M. Hofmann, E. Ng, K. Guo, S. Paul, and H. Zhang. Technical Report BL011345-990409-04TM, Bell Laboratories, April 1999.
Silo, Rainbow, and Caching Token: Schemes for Scalable, Fault Tolerant Stream Caching Y. Chae, K. Guo, M. Buddhikot, S. Suri and E. Zegura, Journal of Selected Areas in Communications.
Multimedia proxy caching mechanism for quality adaptive streaming applications in the internet R. Rejaie, H. Yu, M. Handley, and D. Estrin, INFOCOM, Tel Aviv, Israel, Mar. 26--30, 2000

Slides: Streaming Media Caching

Lecture 8: Error Recovery

Readings:

A Survey of Packet-loss Recovery Techniques for Streaming Audio C. Perkins, O. Hodson, and V. Hardman, IEEE Network Magazine, Sept./Oct. 1998.
Packet Loss Effects on MPEG Video Sent Over the Public Internet J. M. Boyce and R. D. Gaglianello, ACM Multimedia, pp. 181--190, 1998 [ACM Digital Library]
Error Control Techniques for Interactive Low-bit Rate Video Transmission Over the Internet I. Rhee. Proceedings of SIGCOMM, 1998. [ACM Digital Library]

Slides: Error Recovery

Lecture 7: Playout Buffering

Reading List:

A Multi-Threshold Online Smoothing Technique for Variable Rate Multimedia Streams R. Zimmermann, C. Shahabi, K. Fu, and M. Jahangiri. Multimedia Tools and Applications journal, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 23-49, 2006.
Adaptive playout mechanisms for packetized audio applications in wide-area networks R. Ramjee, J. Kurose, D. Towsley, and H. Schulzrinne. IEEE INFOCOM, Toronto, Canada, June 1994.
Packet Audio Playout Delay Adjustment: Performance Bounds and Algorithms S. B. Moon, J. Kurose, and D. Towsley ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems, vol. 6, pp. 17-28, January 1998.

Slides: Playout Buffering

Lecture 6: Introduction to SecondLife and Project Discussion

SecondLife will be introduced during this lecture. The project will be further discussed.

Reading List:

RFC 3016: RTP Payload Format for MPEG-4 Audio/Visual Streams Y. Kikuchi, T. Nomura, S. Fukunaga, Y. Matsui, H. Kimata IETF Network Working Group, November 2000
RFC 3984: RTP Payload Format for H.264 Video S. Wenger, M.M. Hannuksela, T. Stockhammer, M. Westerlund, D. Singer; IETF Network Working Group, February 2005

Slides: Introduction to SecondLife

Lecture 5: Project

The project will be discussed in this lecture.

Additional Resources:

  • Project description: here
  • Yima PE documentation: here
  • Yima PE v1.1 Internals documentation: here
  • Yima PE v1.1 source code: here

Slides: Project

Lecture 4: Rate Adaptation

Reading List:

The Loss-Delay Based Adjustment Algorithm: A TCP-friendly Adaptation Scheme S. Sisalem, H. Schulzerinne NOSSDAV 1998
Measurements of the Congestion Responsiveness of Windows Streaming Media J. Nichols, M. Claypool, R. Kinicki, M. Li NOSSDAV 2004

Slides: Rate Adaptation

Lecture 3: RTP Packetization

Reading List:

RTP Payload Format for MPEG1/MPEG2 Video D. Hoffman, G. Fernando, V. Goyal, M. Vicanlar. Internet Engineering Task Force, RFC2250.
A More Loss-Tolerant RTP Payload Format for MP3 Audio R. Finlayson. Internet Engineering Task Force, RFC3119.
RTP Payload Format for the Speex Codec G. Herlein, J. Valin, A. Heggestad, and A. Moizard. Internet Engineering Task Force, Internet-Draft.
Guidelines for Writers of RTP Payload Format Specifications M. Handley, and C. Perkins. Internet Engineering Task Force, RFC2736.

Additional Resources:

Slides: Packetization

Lecture 2: Network, Transport and Application Layer

Reading List:

Host extension to IP multicast S. Deering, Internet Engineering Task Force, RFC1112.
The PIM architecture for wide-area multicast routing H. Schulzrinne, S. Casner, R. Frederick, and V. Jacobson, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 4(2) , April 1996, pg 153 -- 162
RTP: A transport protocol for real-time applications H. Schulzrinne, S. Casner, R. Frederick, and V. Jacobson, Internet Engineering Task Force, Audio-Video Transport Working Group, RFC3550. (only need to skim this)

Additional Resources:

Slides: Network

Lecture 1: Introduction to MPEG Compression

Reading List:

The JPEG still picture compression standard, G. K. Wallace, Communication of the ACM, 34(4):30--44, April 1991
MPEG: A video compression standard for multimedia applications, D. Le Gall, Communications of the ACM, 34(4):46--58, April 1991

Slides: Introduction, Compression, Applet: DCT Demo,
Video: Surfing_short.m2t (MPEG-2 HD Transport Stream, 98 MB)